Sanal is originally from the village of Ketchenery in Kalmykia. He is from the Bagshin Shevnr clan. In 2001 at the age of 17 he became a monk. He made this decision after reading extensively about Buddhism and long reflections. Sanal is not the first monk in his family....

There are three famous temples in Kalmykia, namely the Ik Khurul (Big Temple), the Dund Khurul (Middle Temple) and the Bag Khurul (Small Temple) believed to be founded by three brothers. According to yet another story, the temples’ founders were a father and his two son...

[ES] Películas que resumen las campañas realizadas en el marco de los proyectos hispano-argetinos de investigación etnoarqueológica en Tierra del Fuego.

This video contains some interesting details about the history of the Ejine Torghuts. After their settlement in Ejine almost 300 years ago, Torghut nobles took wives mostly from the Halh Mongols. Yonghong says that although traditional Torghut clothes have been preserve...

Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

[EN] Conference of Felipe Criado-Boado, entitled "Territory, matter and memory: contributions from the archeology of the landscape", in the event "Architecture and rural territory" organized by rvr architects and María Martínez Otero Foundation, in Callobre, A Estrada.

In this research, we focus on spatial analysis and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to find two elements: ���Where (Location)��� and ���When (Time)��� in the biographical data. By linking and showing the extracted information via a GIS system, we built a spa...

The Oirats helped the Gelug school of Buddhism, of which the Dalai Lama is the head, come to power in Tibet. The Kalmyks took upon themselves a lot of sin by killing monks from other Buddhist schools. Ubush’s grandmother used say to him that the Kalmyks were atoning the...

This paper traces a critical thread between surveillance, modern American poetry, Digital Humanities, and queer activism in the 20th century. In doing this, the paper will examine the creation, metadata, digitisation, and reception of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

Sergei is an artist. He was born in Elista but moved to Leningradskaya oblast’ in 2009 where now he runs an art studio, Red Star, with his wife Galina. Sergei’s parents are from the village of Aktyubeevka in Astrakhan oblast’. Sergei’s father was also good at drawing, a...